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NEW EDWARD SNOWDEN DOCUMENTS SHOW RIDICULOUS DATA COLLECTING OBSESSION The PRISM program, by which the NSA collects millions and millions of telephone and email records, was brought to the [...]

The Liberty Beat According to a report by the Telegraph, Facebook conducted a secret massive psychology experiment on its users to find out how they respond to positive and negative messages, [...]

Activist Post Georgia Tech researchers have created a tool to monitor the accessibility of Web pages around the world that can be installed by adding a single line of code to a web page. The [...]

Business Week Originally Published January 2014 Last year, Edward Snowden turned over to the Guardian, a British newspaper, some 58,000 classified U.S. government documents. Just a fraction of [...]

Wired The hacker collective Anonymous and its factions LulzSec and AntiSec drew widespread attention between 2008 and 2012 as they tore loudly through the internet ruthlessly hacking websites, [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time, U.S. Internet advertising revenue has surpassed that of broadcast television thanks to sharp growth in mobile and digital video ads. That’s [...]

By Mark Hosenball and Alina Selyukh (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s plan for overhauling the National Security Agency’s phone surveillance program could force carriers to [...]

Raw Story A U.S. bid to extradite Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom from New Zealand for alleged online piracy has been pushed back again, court officials said Tuesday. The two-week extradition hearing [...]

DM Could you give up the internet for Lent – or even for good? Following various reports about companies stealing information and complaints about oversharing on social media, a web hosting [...]

ZDNet How do you spot a fake Facebook user? People have many strategies, including looking at the content on their Wall, checking their mutual friends, and/or just scanning for anything out of [...]